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Sustainability or Collapse?

An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth

Edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich and Will Steffen

With Gloria Custance

ISBN: 9780262515979

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 21, 2011

Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future.

Attachment and Bonding

A New Synthesis

Edited by C. Sue Carter, Lieselotte Ahnert, K. E. Grossmann, Sarah B. Hrdy, Michael E. Lamb, Stephen W. Porges and Norbert Sachser

ISBN: 9780262528542

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 6, 2015

Scientists from different disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, pediatrics, neurobiology, endocrinology, and molecular biology, explore the concepts of attachment and bonding from varying scientific perspectives.

Tectonic Faults

Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth

Edited by Mark R. Handy, Greg Hirth and Niels Hovius

With Gloria Custance

ISBN: 9780262083621

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 11, 2007

Scientists examine tectonic faulting on all scales—from seismic fault slip to the formation of mountain ranges—and discuss its connection to a wide range of global phenomena, including long-term climate change and evolution.

Heuristics and the Law

Edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and Christoph Engel

ISBN: 9780262072755

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 11, 2006

Experts in law, psychology, and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal" heuristics in the creation and implementation of law

Bounded Rationality

The Adaptive Toolbox

Edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten

ISBN: 9780262571647

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 26, 2002

In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision making in economics, cognitive science,...

Microcircuits

The Interface between Neurons and Global Brain Function

Edited by Sten Grillner and Ann M Graybiel

ISBN: 9780262072786

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 15, 2006

Leading neuroscientists discuss the function of microcircuits, functional modules that act as elementary processing units bridging single cells to systems and behavior.

Earth System Analysis for Sustainability

Edited by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Paul J. Crutzen, William C. Clark, Martin Claussen and Hermann Held

ISBN: 9780262195133

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 22, 2004

Demonstrates how understanding the intertwined evolution of the Earth's geosphere and biosphere can contribute to the achievement of global sustainability.